Gene: KCNJ8 ENSG00000121361

Description

potassium inwardly-rectifying channel, subfamily J, member 8 [Source:HGNC Symbol;Acc:6269]

Gene Synonyms

KIR6.1, Kir6.1, uKATP-1

Location

GRCh37:CM000674.1

About this gene

This gene has 2 transcripts (splice variants), 13 paralogues and is associated with 5 phenotypes.

Transcripts

Transcript ID	Name	bp	Protein	Biotype	CCDS	UniProt Match	RefSeq	Flags
ENST00000240662.2	KCNJ8-001	2389	424aa	Gene/transcipt that contains an open reading frame (ORF).Protein coding	CCDS8692	F5GY12 Q15842	NM_004982.3	A single transcript chosen for a gene which is the most conserved, most highly expressed, has the longest coding sequence and is represented in other key resources, such as NCBI and UniProt. This is defined in detail on http://www.ensembl.org/info/genome/genebuild/canonical.htmlEnsembl Canonical, A subset of the GENCODE transcript set, containing only 5' and 3' complete transcripts at protein-coding genes.GENCODE Basic,
ENST00000537950.1	KCNJ8-002	507	114aa	Gene/transcipt that contains an open reading frame (ORF).Protein coding		F5GY12	-	3' truncation in transcript evidence prevents annotation of the end of the CDS.CDS 3' incomplete,

Summary

Name

KCNJ8 (HGNC Symbol)

UniProtKB

This gene has proteins that correspond to the following UniProtKB identifiers: Q15842

CCDS

This gene is a member of the Human CCDS set: CCDS8692.1

Ensembl version

ENSG00000121361.3

Other assemblies

This gene maps to 21,764,955-21,775,581 in GRCh38 coordinates.

Gene type

Protein coding

Annotation method

Annotation for this gene includes both automatic annotation from Ensembl and Havana manual curation, see article.

Alternative genes

This gene corresponds to the following database identifiers:

Havana gene:	OTTHUMG00000169093 (version 1)

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